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Recent Virtual Terrain Project Developments
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on Monday February 20, @09:15AM
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Ben Discoe writes "For those people who haven't checked out the VTP software in a while, we've been steadily releasing enhancements every 1-2 months for the past 6 years. In the latest release, there is: Improved road geometry, expanded format support, texture switching at runtime, improved dynamic overview, texturing for TINs, LineWidth for Abstract layers, improved WMS support, and more. As always, it's open source and cross-platform; in fact, it's recently become far more stable and usable on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows."
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